Word.ws English Dictionary

gemminess

gemminess noun: the state or quality of being gemmy; spruceness; smartness.

Noun

gemminess (uncountable)

  1. (UK, archaic, slang) The state or quality of being gemmy; spruceness; smartness.
    • An infinite gemminess of flowers scintillates .along its course1859, Theodore Winthrop, A Companion to the Heart of the Andes, page 41

Forms of gemminess

alternative formjemminess

Origin of gemminess

From gemmy + -ness.

Questions about gemminess

What does gemminess mean?
Gemminess means the state or quality of being gemmy; spruceness; smartness.
What part of speech is gemminess?
Gemminess is a noun.

Words near gemminess in the dictionary

  1. gemmifications
  2. gemmiform
  3. Gemmill
  4. Gemmills
  5. gemmily
  6. gemminess
  7. gemming
  8. gemmiparity
  9. gemmiparous
  10. gemmiparously
  11. gemmoid

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gemminess (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “gemminess.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gemminess. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.